Sid Devarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I use nedit on my RH Fedora linux machine and get this message > everytime I start nedit: > > "The current locale is utf8 (en_US.UTF-8). Changed locale to non-utf8 (en_US)." > > Can I do anything to make this go away? It is not a big problem, but I > would prefer > not seeing this everytime. > Save the following script as /usr/local/bin/nedit: #!/bin/bash LANG=${LANG%.UTF-8} exec /usr/bin/nedit ${1+"$@"} And make it executable (chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/nedit). BTW, I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain the '${1+"$@"}' brace expansion. It's the only way I've found to handle multiple parameters, some of which contain spaces, but I'd love to know *why* it works. HTH -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx ========================================================================